Hitler's skull belonged to a woman

Skull believed to be the last remain of a Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, belonged to a woman, DNA shows.

Controversies about Hitler's suicide and death resurrected yesterday after fragments of a skull, believed to belong to a Nazi leader, were proven to belong to a female, the British The Sun reports.

This discovery brings into question the way Hitler’s life ended. According to historical data, Adolf Hitler killed himself by swallowing a cyanide pill and shooting himself in the head.

Russians later dug up the body with a bullet hole in the head and announced that the burnt body belonged to Hitler. In 1970 KGB cremated the body, and kept the part of the jaw and skull.

Hitler was 56 at the time of his death but his alleged skull was under 40

- It is now clear that the piece of skull really belonged to a woman aged between 20 and 40 - Nick Bellantoni, archeologist from the University of Connecticut, said.

He added that the wall of the skull seemed a lot thinner than you would expect to see in a person of male gender. In addition to this, Hitler was 56 in the April of 1945 and skull's DNA showed that it belonged to a person who was under 40.

It is known that Eva Braun, Hitler's mistress, was also killed by taking cyanide and that she was 33 at the time. However, the archaeologists say that there is no evidence that she shot herself in the head, so the skull could belong to anyone.